Dreamworld Corroboree is a collection of wildlife attractions at the Dreamworld

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on the Gold Coast,

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, Australia. The area is divided into several subsections which allow guests to view the animals in their natural habitats. Dreamworld Corroboree is a registered zoo with 800 native and barnyard animals located within the Dreamworld grounds.

History

Koala Country was Dreamworld's original wildlife exhibit, opening in 1987. After major redevelopment, the Australian Wildlife Experience opened in 2001, featuring Koala Country as one of five wildlife zones. During the redevelopment, access to Koala Country was limited. The new development required the reworking of the Dreamworld Railway tracks causing the train to drive a portion of the circuit backwards during construction. The redevelopment cost A$5 million. On 9 July 2012 at Dreamworld, the Australian

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Martin Ferguson announced that the

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would contribute $1.1 million to the redevelopment of the Australian Wildlife Experience into an

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tourist experience. Dreamworld's owners,

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, vowed to match the grant in order to have the $2.2 million redeveloped area open by late 2013. Dreamworld has previously worked with the Indigenous community to develop the Dreamworld Dreamtime show in 2010 and 2011. Dreamworld Corroboree officially opened to the public on 12 December 2013. In 2017, Dreamworld CEO Craig Davidson announced that the stage 2 development for the Dreamworld Corroboree would be complete. Later that year, the dormant Sky Link Chairlift stations were removed, Avis Vintage Cars underwent a refurbishment and rebranded into Vintage Car Adventure and the area added more references towards

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. An interactive smart lab was also proposed, but it never opened. The lab is still proposed as of 2021.

Attractions

Badu

Badu is an outdoor show theatre dedicated to the

which opened in 2018. Torres Strait Island performances are performed at the show theatre. Badu is located next to the Crocodile enclosure. Badu is named after the

Badu Island Badu or Badu Island (; mwp, Badhu, ; also Mulgrave Island), is an island in the Torres Strait north of Thursday Island, Queensland, Australia. Badu Island is also a locality in the Torres Strait Island Region, and Wakaid is the only town, loc ...

Dreamworld Express

The Dreamworld Express has two stops at the Dreamworld Corroboree. The first stop is at Billabong Station which primarily serves ABC Kids World. The second is located behind the Bunya Traders gift shop. The train then continues to Rocky Hollow Station, located at the Rocky Hollow section of the

Gold Rush Country The Gold Rush Country (a.k.a. Town of Gold Rush or simply Gold Rush) is a themed land at the Dreamworld theme park on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. History The Gold Rush Country opened on 11 December 1986. The area featured the Eu ...

area, before terminating back at Central Park Station, located at Main Street. The attraction opened in 1981 as the Cannonball Express.

Humpy

Humpy (also known as the Dreamworld Corrboree Theatre) is a exhibit featuring aboriginal art and stories. The theatre also features films produced by aboriginal musician David Hudson. The theatre also hosts aboriginal VR experiences. The building's exterior represents a

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, a small shelter used by aboriginals.

Rainbow Serpent

The Rainbow Serpent is a tunnel located near

The Giant Drop The Giant Drop is a drop tower ride located at the Dreamworld theme park on the Gold Coast, Australia. Manufactured by Intamin, the ride was added in December 1998 to the existing Dreamworld Tower which housed the Tower of Terror. For f ...

which opened in 2018. The tunnel is themed to the

rainbow serpent The Rainbow Serpent or Rainbow Snake is a common deity often seen as the creator God, known by numerous names in different Australian Aboriginal languages by the many different Aboriginal peoples. It is a common motif in the art and religio ...

, an immortal being and creating God in Aboriginal Mythology. The tunnel has information boards about the rainbow serpent and plays

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noises.

Vintage Car Adventure

''Vintage Car Adventure'' is a fixed track car ride with scaled-down

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cars fixed onto a concrete track with a single guide rail. The ride was relocated from its original location due to the placement of Mick Doohan's Motocoaster ride in 2007. The ride opened in 1981 with the park in the Rivertown area of the park. The fourteen replicas cars each seat four people and were purchased for A$12,000 each.

Wildlife exhibits

Bilby House

The ''Bilby House'' is an exhibit where guests can get up close with the critically endangered bilby marsupial animal. The exhibit is specifically designed for bilbies as it is a semi-nocturnal house.

Daintree Rainforest

''Daintree Rainforest'' is an exhibit of animals which live in tropical climates. Animals include

cassowaries Cassowaries ( tpi, muruk, id, kasuari) are flightless birds of the genus ''Casuarius'' in the order Casuariiformes. They are classified as ratites (flightless birds without a keel on their sternum bones) and are native to the tropical for ...

, red-legged pademelons,

tree frogs A tree frog (or treefrog) is any species of frog that spends a major portion of its lifespan in trees, known as an arboreal state. Several lineages of frogs among the Neobatrachia have given rise to treefrogs, although they are not closely relat ...

, green tree pythons and a scrub python.

Dreamworld Woolshed

''Dreamworld Woolshed'' is a woolshed which features wool animals such as

sheep Sheep or domestic sheep (''Ovis aries'') are domesticated, ruminant mammals typically kept as livestock. Although the term ''sheep'' can apply to other species in the genus ''Ovis'', in everyday usage it almost always refers to domesticated sh ...

and a

sheep dog A sheep dog or sheepdog is generally a dog or breed of dogs historically used in connection with the raising of sheep. These include livestock guardian dogs used to guard sheep and other livestock and herding dogs used to move, manage and ...

. The Dreamworld Woolshed is home to the Australian Sheep Shearing Show. The woolshed opened in 2010 replacing the former Farmyard Friends barn.

Kakadu Wetlands

''Kakadu Wetlands'' is an exhibit of reptiles which features two

crocodile Crocodiles (family Crocodylidae) or true crocodiles are large semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia. The term crocodile is sometimes used even more loosely to include all extant ...

pools for both

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and

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crocodiles. A crocodile feeding show is held daily. Kakadu Wetlands is also home to a collection of

turtle Turtles are an order of reptiles known as Testudines, characterized by a special shell developed mainly from their ribs. Modern turtles are divided into two major groups, the Pleurodira (side necked turtles) and Cryptodira (hidden necked ...

magpie geese The magpie goose (''Anseranas semipalmata'') is the sole living representative species of the family Anseranatidae. This common waterbird is found in northern Australia and southern New Guinea. As the species is prone to wandering, especially ...

, water hens and

brolgas The brolga (''Antigone rubicunda''), formerly known as the native companion, is a bird in the crane family. It has also been given the name Australian crane, a term coined in 1865 by well-known ornithologist John Gould in his ''Birds of Australi ...

Koala Country

''Koala Country'' is an exhibit focusing on Dreamworld's collection of 58

koalas The koala or, inaccurately, koala bear (''Phascolarctos cinereus''), is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia. It is the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae and its closest living relatives are the womba ...

, including the first blue-eyed koala known to be born in captivity. The "Cuddle a Koala" feature allows guests to have a photo professionally taken holding one of the park's koalas. This section also features

kangaroos Kangaroos are four marsupials from the family Macropodidae (macropods, meaning "large foot"). In common use the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, the red kangaroo, as well as the antilopine kangaroo, eastern ...

which guests can feed and pet. When opening in 1987, Koala Country was home to just 14 koalas.

Outback Adventure

''Outback Adventure'' is an exhibit for Australian animals native to outback habitat. The area includes

dingos The dingo (''Canis familiaris'', ''Canis familiaris dingo'', ''Canis dingo'', or '' Canis lupus dingo'') is an ancient (basal) lineage of dog found in Australia. Its taxonomic classification is debated as indicated by the variety of scient ...

red kangaroos The red kangaroo (''Osphranter rufus'') is the largest of all kangaroos, the largest terrestrial mammal native to Australia, and the largest extant marsupial. It is found across mainland Australia, except for the more fertile areas, such as sou ...

emu The emu () (''Dromaius novaehollandiae'') is the second-tallest living bird after its ratite relative the ostrich. It is endemic to Australia where it is the largest native bird and the only extant member of the genus '' Dromaius''. The ...

southern hairy-nosed wombat The southern hairy-nosed wombat (''Lasiorhinus latifrons'') is one of three extant species of wombats. It is found in scattered areas of semiarid scrub and mallee from the eastern Nullarbor Plain to the New South Wales border area. It is the s ...

snakes Snakes are elongated, limbless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes . Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more j ...

pythons The Pythonidae, commonly known as pythons, are a family of nonvenomous snakes found in Africa, Asia, and Australia. Among its members are some of the largest snakes in the world. Ten genera and 42 species are currently recognized. Distributio ...

geckos Geckos are small, mostly carnivorous lizards that have a wide distribution, found on every continent except Antarctica. Belonging to the infraorder Gekkota, geckos are found in warm climates throughout the world. They range from . Geckos ...

, monitors, shingle-backs and other arid

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Twilight Trail

''Twilight Trail'' is an exhibit for nocturnal wildlife. The exhibit includes

owls Owls are birds from the order Strigiformes (), which includes over 200 species of mostly solitary and nocturnal birds of prey typified by an upright stance, a large, broad head, binocular vision, binaural hearing, sharp talons, and feathers ...

squirrel gliders The squirrel glider (''Petaurus norfolcensis'') is a nocturnal gliding possum. The squirrel glider is one of the wrist-winged gliders of the genus ''Petaurus''. Habitat This species' home range extends from Bordertown near the South Australi ...

, Rufous Bettongs,

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and other native nocturnal wildlife.

Presentations

Australian Sheep Shearing Show

Located in the Dreamworld Woolshed, the ''Australian Sheep Shearing Show'' is an interactive show held several times a day set against an outback station and providing visitors with a taste of life on an Australian farm. It showcases the abilities of farm dogs and shearing of a

. Guests get to try some

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and billy tea at the conclusion of the show.

Crocodile Talk

The Crocodile Talk is an informative animal presentation of the park's

saltwater crocodiles The saltwater crocodile (''Crocodylus porosus'') is a crocodilian native to saltwater habitats and brackish wetlands from India's east coast across Southeast Asia and the Sundaic region to northern Australia and Micronesia. It has been liste ...

. The presentation are held at the Kakadu Wetlands exxhibit.

Wildlife Talk

The Wildlife Talk is an informative animal presentation of some of the animal located within the corroboree. The presentation is held near the Arid wildlife exhibit.

Other

Dreamworld Corroboree also features presentations based on the

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culture, including demonstrations of traditional music, making fire, and cultural weapons. The ''Australian Animal Presentation'' was a show which displayed a selection of animals from the critically endangered bilby to

cockatoo A cockatoo is any of the 21 parrot species belonging to the family Cacatuidae, the only family in the superfamily Cacatuoidea. Along with the Psittacoidea ( true parrots) and the Strigopoidea (large New Zealand parrots), they make up the ...

s and

koala The koala or, inaccurately, koala bear (''Phascolarctos cinereus''), is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia. It is the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae and its closest living relatives are the ...

s. Guests had the opportunity to get up close and take photographs with the wildlife. The show ran from 2009 to 2013.

Shopping and dining

The Dreamworld Corroborree offers several of food and shopping outlets themed to Australian animals and indigenous Australia.Dreamworld and WhiteWater World Park Map (2009). Guests can purchase merchandise at: * Bunya Traders Gift Shop (formerly Croc Creek Traders) — Indigenous Australian and Australian animal themed merchandise * Koala Photos — guests can cuddle a koala and receive a photograph of them. Aboriginal themed merchandise can also be purchased. Guests buy food and beverage items at: * Billabong Buffett Restaurant (formerly Riverwalk Restaurant) — a Buffett restaurant * Presto’s Training Cafe (formerly Kai-Kai Café & formerly Kakadu Cafe) — offers a variety bush tucker inspired food such as pies, assorted sandwiches and deserts. The cafe also sells its own coffee brand. The cafe is a unique social venture between The Preston Campbell Foundation and Dreamworld.

References

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